[xubuntu-users] xubuntu 14.04 beta testing, has the panel at the bottom of the screen been removed officially?

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Elfy wrote:

> This is one of those things - one man's default is another's yuk ...

Another emphatic YUCK!

One of XFCE's main strengths is the ability to create kiosk-mode locked
down menus for corporate/public machines where users are not able to
change the layout or content, or do other things like shutting
down/rebooting the machine.

For about a decade now, XFCE has provided the ideal solution for such
environments, but the core values are being needlessly and disturbingly
erroded.  The current Xubuntu version, for example, allows users to right
click on a panel/launcher and get a 'log out' panel with complete
shutdown/reboot/suspend privilages, completely bypassing restrictions set
on what should be the only 'exit' launcher (at least this is true with the
default lightdm, which has it's own issues).

Adding things like 'favorites' and other user changeable frills in
launchers is simply anathema for many business and corporate environments
where machines are shared and centrally configured and administered.  It
could also be argued that creating 'top 10' lists of used programs is a
privacy/security issue.

I sincerly hope the 'traditional' launcher mechanisms will continue being
available, otherwise, I'll be looking for another distro.

> Also, just a general point - these things do get discussed - and there
> are logs - during meetings [1].
>
> I'm sure it's not your intent - but people are welcome to the meetings,
> and to talk too ;)

Wonderful.

George Nemeyer
Tigerden Internet Services